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Hermaphrodites and the understanding of sexual difference in the early seventeenth century
In this paper, I compare the ways in which three seventeenth-century physi-cians, Rodrigo de Castro, Caspar Bauhin and Jean Riolan, dealt in their works with the anatomical and social problems posed by the hermaphroditic body.
Palmira Fontes da Costa
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Eighteenth-century Quakerism and the rehabilitation of James Nayler, seventeenth-century radical [PDF]
Although the first Quakers aligned with history superfluous tradition, detrimental to true appreciation of the inward voice of God, by the early eighteenth century they had produced their first histories as a defence against Anglican allegations of ...
ERIN BELL, Greenwood, Knott, Mullett
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Paleotsunami deposit investigations and numerical tsunami computations have been performed to elucidate the source and size of large tsunamis along the Kuril to Japan Trenches, particularly for unusual tsunamis that occurred in the seventeenth century ...
Kai Sato +4 more
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Dragons in the Drawing Room: Chinese Embroideries in British Homes [PDF]
Chinese embroideries have featured in British domestic interiors since at least the seventeenth century. However, Western imperial interests in China during the mid-nineteenth and early twentieth century created a particular set of meanings around ...
Baker Muriel +7 more
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Seventeenth-Century Ukrainian Preaching Culture
In the national religious studies there was a tendency to know the origins of national spirituality. Such treatment is required by all those processes that take place in the cultural and religious plane of our country.
O.P. Rozumna
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Blending the secular and sacred: instrumental textures in seventeenth-century worship
In the seventeenth century composers employed traditionally secular instrumentations, such as that of the solo violin or ensembles of brass or string instruments, in concerted settings of liturgical texts.
Kimberly Beck
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George Starkey, an Early Seventeenth-Century American Entomologist [PDF]
Between the earliest known North American entomological observations made by John White (Wilkinson, 1973a) and Thomas Hariot, and the beginning of more systematic investigations by John Banister (Ewan and Ewan, 1970) and other collectors in the late ...
Wilkinson, Ronald S.
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Indian Sufism since the Seventeenth Century
Based on his doctoral dissertation submitted to the University of London, the present book is a wonderful study of the Sufis ofAurangabad (and, more generally, in the Deccan realms of Hyderabad’s Nizams) and their consequent legacy in independent India ...
Sajjad H. Rizvi
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A Title Page of Michael Praetorius
The well-known title page used by Michael Praetorius for several of his publications provides a starting-point for a discussion of the way large-scale music was directed in early seventeenth-century Germany. The practice of depicting composers with rolls
Peter Holman
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Citizenship and Exile: English Republicanism in a Transnational Context
This article assesses the language and actions employed by English republicans in European exile during the 1660s and 1670s to conceptualise their transnational political and religious identity, their sense of citizenship, and their relationship to their
Gaby Mahlberg
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